The number of software vendors offering ‘Software-as-a-Service’ has been increasing in recent years. In the Software …-as-a-Service model software is operated by the software vendor and delivered to the customer as a service. Existing business models and … industry structures are challenged by the changes to the deployment and pricing model compared to traditional software. However …

Based on collaboration rather than competition, Open Source Software provides a new dynamic in the development and use … of software systems. As such it has the potential to make a significant legal, social and economic impact on the industry …. While its origins trace back to the start of the software industry, the recent success of the Linux operation system, Apache …

interoperability between chemistry software, encouraging cooperation between Open Source developers, and developing community resources …

Today, it is almost inevitable that software is licensed, rather than sold outright. As a part of the licensing policy …, some protection mechanisms, whether hardware, legal or code-based, are invariably built into the license. The application … of such mechanisms has primarily been in the realm of off-the-shelf, packaged, consumer software. However, as component …

Schutzrechten, nämlich: Globalisierung, rechtliches Umfeld, kooperative Forschung und Open Source Software-Nutzung. …This dissertation focuses on competition within the software market. Specifically it aims to provide further … medium sized enterprises (SME) have on competition in the software industry? Normative contribution to the dynamic policy …

already developed accounting software is quite complex, expensive and has many additional features, witch aren’t useful for a … small enterprises. This is why it has been decided to develop own specific software for a goods accounting. User interface … were used in the requirement specification. Architecture of components and software structure is also provided in this …